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On July 1, 2026, the United Nations’ Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence released a preliminary report intended to frame the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on July 6 and 7. The document is supposed to be a baseline for governments, not...

Microsoft Azure’s evolution from a commercial cloud storage service to a platform implicated in large-scale intelligence operations has exposed one of the most consequential fault lines of our digital era: when enterprise-grade infrastructure meets state surveillance, the consequences can be...

A torrent of controversy has erupted around Microsoft after reports from UN authorities and investigative journalists implicated the tech giant’s Azure cloud in Israel’s massive surveillance operations targeting Palestinians. Allegations range from storing intercepted calls and biometric data to...

A cascade of investigative reports, United Nations findings, and whistleblower testimony has ignited global debate over the role of Microsoft and other big tech companies as the digital infrastructure underlying Israel’s surveillance and military operations in Gaza. At the heart of this...

A storm of controversy has engulfed Microsoft amid widespread reports that its Azure cloud platform is central to the storage and processing of vast volumes of Israeli surveillance data on Palestinians, including biometric records, intercepted communications, and intelligence data allegedly used...

In late June, a United Nations report delivered a seismic indictment of three of the world’s most powerful technology companies—Google, Amazon, and Microsoft—asserting that their cloud and AI platforms have made them complicit in what the report characterizes as genocide in Gaza. This...